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Mission & Objectives
Our Mission
Advancing animal welfare and human health while ensuring the vitality of the profession.


Our Objectives
The objectives of the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association are:
  • To advance the science and art of veterinary medicine, including the relationship of the profession to public health;
  • To foster, maintain, and enlarge public understanding of the nature of the practice of veterinary medicine and its relationships to the whole community of the Commonwealth in its treatment and care of the animal population
  • To extend to the agricultural community and the community at large the benefits of sound and progressive leadership in the care and treatment of animals and the protection and advancement of the agricultural industry
  • To provide leadership and training to foster public awareness of the interrelationships of animal care and human care in our economy and society
  • To do all other things necessary and desirable to further high standards of care in the treatment of animals and continuing standards of excellence in the professional training and continuing education of veterinary medical doctors
  • To promote goodwill among its members and to seek protection of their rights and privileges
  • To perform those functions provided by the Act of the Legislature under which the Association in incorporated; and To advance the maintenance of ethical standards which reflect the learned nature of the profession and the peculiar responsibilities of the veterinary medical practitioner to the whole community of the Commonwealth
 
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